The ITK Discussion Thread - 15th January 2022

[Guntz]

Praying this is true ?

He's so good and can play anywhere across the front 3

 

[Trent Crimm]

I get what you are saying but if we didn't take a risk we wouldn't be a football club, Vlahovic would cost around £60m but there is no guarantee he will be a success, would you rather the club just didn't bother in case we end up paying him £200k a week and it doesn't work out? In fact i can't think of a single player Spurs have ever bought that wasn't a risk, all players for all clubs are a risk, succeeding at Real Madrid etc doesn't guarantee a success at Spurs.

Agree. But the bolder bit has me wondering at times.

We are like Tesla. A tech co that does cars. Only with with us it’s like a prop company that dabbles in Sport.

 

[dtxspurs]

Praying this is true ?

He's so good and can play anywhere across the front 3

TSN are the largest sports outlet in Canada. Scored 16 goals in 28 games this season.

Would likely cost a fortune though as Lille are known to get top dollar just recently with Osimhen & Pepe.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Praying this is true ?

He's so good and can play anywhere across the front 3

Makes no difference if he doesn't want to move until the summer so i'll forget about it until then.

 

[Gspurs11]

Agree. But the bolder bit has me wondering at times.

We are like Tesla. A tech co that does cars. Only with with us it’s like a prop company that dabbles in Sport.

We do also have a tendency to randomly burst into flames at moments so an apt comparison.

 

[Tucker]

Praying this is true ?

He's so good and can play anywhere across the front 3

I’m not going to get excited about our name being tagged on to a load of others. Screams of agents trying to drum up interest, or more likely journalists spreading their click net even wider.

 

[Raitei]

Only hope for Lille not getting top dollar for him is that the state of French football finances got very bad due to the pandemic. Though I don't know how hard they were hit

 

[Guernman]

Another great purchase by Luis Campos. Paratici has a long way to go yet to convince me that he has a similar eye for talent

 

[Jamturk]

Another great purchase by Luis Campos. Paratici has a long way to go yet to convince me that he has a similar eye for talent

It's a different job scouting for a top 6 premier league club than a French Club in League 1.

Also hasn't Paratici proved himself building up the Juventus team in Serie A.

I still feel Paratici needs to acclimatise himself into English Football though.

 

[fecka]

It's a different job scouting for a top 6 premier league club than a French Club in League 1.

Also hasn't Paratici proved himself building up the Juventus team in Serie A.

I still feel Paratici needs to acclimatise himself into English Football though.

Paratici was more or less only a head scout under Beppe Marotta until the latter left for Inter in 2018. Coincidentally, that's when Juves decline and Inters surge towards the top began. Paratici might have a good eye for a player but there are legitimate question marks over his decision making as a DOF both from his time at Juve, and his time here.

 

[Metalhead]

Paratici was more or less only a head scout under Beppe Marotta until the latter left for Inter in 2018. Coincidentally, that's when Juves decline and Inters surge towards the top began. Paratici might have a good eye for a player but there are legitimate question marks over his decision making as a DOF both from his time at Juve, and his time here.

Brilliant - more good news to cheer us up.

 

[robspur]

So, is the delay to signings and outgoings down to waiting until after Chelsea game. Working on the basis that it’s unlikely for new players to have a high impact so quickly but the risk of losing even squad players given both volume of games and risk of covid absences? I’m assuming it’ll light up from then on. Assuming we won’t add before we loan/sell out.

 

[robspur]

We obviously don’t have a game until the window closes again.

 

[blitzfyr]

I might be wrong because I haven't heard much on this but my feeling is he's coming in to be part of Hitchen's team looking at younger prospects with potential and not £50mil first team players.

Traore price went up all of a sudden ?

 

[Wsussexspur]

Paratici was more or less only a head scout under Beppe Marotta until the latter left for Inter in 2018. Coincidentally, that's when Juves decline and Inters surge towards the top began. Paratici might have a good eye for a player but there are legitimate question marks over his decision making as a DOF both from his time at Juve, and his time here.

Exactly this! Fed up of hearing people on here banging on about how Paratici built Juventus up and appointed Conte and Allegri etc… He really didn’t! That was Marotta. Paratici was just his assistant until 2018. The decline in Juventus can actually be traced back to when Paratici took over the job. It’s pretty much his signings at the club now and look how they have been doing for the past 2 seasons….

The jury is definitely out on him and so far he really hasn’t impressed since joining us.

 

[Metalhead]

Exactly this! Fed up of hearing people on here banging on about how Paratici built Juventus up and appointed Conte and Allegri etc… He really didn’t! That was Marotta. Paratici was just his assistant until 2018. The decline in Juventus can actually be traced back to when Paratici took over the job. It’s pretty much his signings at the club now and look how they have been doing for the past 2 seasons….

The jury is definitely out on him and so far he really hasn’t impressed since joining us.

I don't know, maybe people are trying to stay positive. Not a lot we can do when he's obviously highly regarded by Levy and has a good relationship with Conte.

 

[taidgh]

I think Trix added to the post he quoted that targets later shifted to prioritising a cm over a cb but that could have again changed of course, particularly with the tanganga news

Agree. It's odd that it's being reported that we won't loan Tanganga this week, not this window. Taken together, it hints at us expecting to have a CB in by then, at which time we're happy to have Japhet leave on loan.

 

[CanadaSpurs]

Agree. It's odd that it's being reported that we won't loan Tanganga this week, not this window. Taken together, it hints at us expecting to have a CB in by then, at which time we're happy to have Japhet leave on loan.

Yes, the return or Dier and/or Romero.

 

[taidgh]

Yes, the return or Dier and/or Romero.

Ha. Had completely forgot about Romero back by then. Good point!

 

[CanadaSpurs]

Ha. Had completely forgot about Romero back by then. Good point!

Pretty good one to be getting in!